I have a Linux box doing IP Masquerading for a small home LAN, and want to
provide SMB shares on it for the Windows machines on the LAN. The hostname
and IP address of the Linux box is assigned by a dhcp server via the
interface on the Internet side (eth1 in the diagram below).
-------
| | Host IP addresses
name/addr --------- --| host1 | are assigned by
via dhcp | | 192.168.1.1 | | | dhcpd running on
----eth1----| Linux |----eth0-----| ------- the Linux box.
| box | | -------
--------- | | |
--| host2 |
| |
-------
In /etc/smb.conf I have added the following directives to only provide SMB
shares via eth0:
bind interfaces only
interfaces eth0 127.0.0.1/8
However, when I try starting the smbd daemon it dies and gives the
following error in /var/log/samba.smb:
Get_Hostbyname: Unknown host evrtwa1-ar1-188-134
If Get_Hostbyname provided the fully-qualified domain name I'm sure smbd
would work (I added an entry for evrtwa1-ar1-188-134 to /etc/hosts just
to try it out, and was able to access the SMB shares I have set up from MS
Windows machines on the LAN).
Because the hostname is assigned by DHCP, it can (and probably will)
change. Any ideas what I should do? I suppose I could have a script
modify /etc/hosts whenever dhcpc requests/obtains a new hostname and IP
address, but that seems like a bit of a kludge.
Thanks,
Eric R. Turner
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